POPULAR FLORA. 149 



Avc::s. Cenm. 



Calyx bcil-shnpccl or flattisli, S-clcfl", nncl with 5 ndditionul llttlo lobes between. Petals 5. Stamens 

 many. Pistils many in a head, making akoncs, which are tipped witli the stylo, vcniainiiig as a long, 

 nakevl or hai)y tail. Perennial herbs: llowers single or somewhat corymbed. — la all our common 

 «j>ecics the style is jointed and hooked round in the middle. 



<? Upper and mostly liairy joint of the style falling off, leaving the lov.er and smooth portion, which 

 remains hooked at the end: flowers rather small: root-leaves mostly interruptedly i)innate; stem- 

 leaves or lobes 3 to 5. Dry wootls and fields. 



1. WiMTK AvLNS. Smoothish or dov.ny ; petals v.-liitc, as long as the calyx, akenes bristly. C. album. 



2. VinciMAX A. Eri.stly-halry, stouter than the last; petals greenish-white, shorter t!:an tlie calyx; 



akenes smooth. G. Vi-fjinianuta. 



5. Ykli.ow a. Piather hairy, large; petals yellow, longer than the calyx. G. slriclum. 



^- * Upper joint of the style persistent and feathered with long hairs; flowers rather large, iioddin". 



4. "Watku a. Poot-leaves with a large a:id rounded-lobed c:Kl-leaflet, and some very small ones 

 below; stem-leaves few, 3-cleft or of 3 small leaflets; petals not spreading, somewhat i;otc!ied at 

 tlie broad summit, purplish. — Wet banks of streams. G. rirale, 



Cinquefoll. Potentilla. 

 Calyx open or flat, o-parted, and with 5 additional outside lobes altemato v/ith the others, making 

 10. Petals 5. Stamens many. Pistils many in a head, on a dry receptacle, making seed-like akenes, 

 the styles falling olT. 



* Leaves palmate. Herbs, with yellow flowers. 



1. Notnv.vY CiNQUHFOiL. Ercct, coarsc, hairy ; leaflets 3, obovate, cut-toothed. Fields. P. Xon-'-f/ica. 



2. Canada C. Punner-liko stems decumbent or spreading; leaflets 5, obovate-oblong; i>eduncles long, 



axillary, 1-flowered. Fields and banks. P. CtnmlcnsU. 



8. SiLvKUV C. J^ow, with spreading branches, white-woolly, as are the 5 leaflets beneath. P. ar(jintea. 



* * Le:ive3 pinnate. Herbs (except No. o): receptacle of the fruit hairy. 



4. Silvi:i:-wi:kd. Creeping, sending up leaves of 9 to 19 cut-toothed leaflets, besides little one? inter- 

 posed, silvery-white beneath, and single long-stalked yellow flowers. "Wet banks, N. P. Anscrmn. 



6, Siii:uin;Y C. Shrub very bushy, 2° to 4° high; leaflets 5 or 7, crowded near the end of the short 



footstalk, lance-oblong, entire, silky beneath ; flowers yellow. Bogs. P. fruiicbsi. 



6. JIai:sii C. Stems ascending from a scaly creeping base; leaflets 5 or 7, crowded, serrate, lance- 

 oblong; flowers dull purple. Cold bog=, N. P.paluitris, 



Bramble. Ruhus. 

 Calyx open, deeply 5-cleft. Petals 5. Pistils many; their ovaries ripening into llttlo borry-liko 

 grains (or rather dru2)ekts)^ making a kind of compound berry. — Piather shrubby or herbaceous pe- 

 rennials. 



^ 1. PASPBERRY. Fruit falling from the dry receptacle, usually with the grains lightly cohering. 



* Leaves simple, lobed: flowers large and showy : petals spreading. 



1. Puiu'LK FLOWKniXG-PASi'DKHiiY. Bristly and- clammy with odorous brownish glnnds ; leaves 



rounded, with 3 or 5 pointed lobes; flowers in a corymb, rose-purple; fruit flat. Rocky l)anks, 



N. Fl. summer. R, ndoratus. 



1. V.';in-i; Flowkuixg-R. Like No. 1, but the flowers white and smaller. N. \V. &; cult. R. Nulkanus. 



